'Debbie' To Make Landfall As A Category 4 Tropical Cyclone

Authorities worried warnings ignored

2017-03-26T22:11:27Z

UPDATE 8am AEST:

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says authorities are well prepared for Tropical Cyclone Debbie, which is expected to make landfall as a category 4 on Tuesday morning.. but there are worries about the preparedness of residents.

"I brought my rain jacket but I haven't needed it yet, so blues skies and still hardly a breath of breeze. It's picture perfect at the moment so what it means is a lot of people are being really complacent"

"But the way that it is at the moment, y'know that's where the saying 'the calm before the storm' comes from. This is how it was before 2011's Yasi, it looks really calm and then all of a sudden it starts.. And when it starts, it doesn't stop."